The Origins of the Sumerian Gods

The presence of this language can also give us as historians, a great amount of clues about the ethnic identities of peoples. When the acadians infiltrated sumeria later in the third millennium b c e, that the languages of both ethnic groups amalgamated to form a sumerian, arcadian cuniform language. It appears that they believed that the gods created human kind, originated from in and around the absu. One of the most interesting of the gods is enki, who is primarily known as the sumerian god of water. Nki is directly linked to eridu, which was believed to be the first city of mesopotamia. Inki is attributed with having